Editor Shot and Wounded in Kashmir

Srinagar, India, Jul. 10 2002 (INS News) -- A editor of Urdu-language daily was shot and wounded by unidentified gunmen in Kashmir, police said. Rashid Shahid, editor of the daily , was waiting for a bus when he was fired at by the gunmen in the Chanapora locality of Srinagar.

Shahid was taken to hospital where doctors operated on him.

"He has received a bullet each in his neck and arm." Shahid is the second journalist to have been attacked in two months in Kashmir, where nearly a dozen journalists have been killed since the eruption of an armed separatist insurgency in 1989.

Earlier, a reporter of the English daily, Zafar Iqbal was shot and wounded. He is still recovering in hospital.

The police have blamed the attacks on separatist militants, but no group has yet claimed responsibility.

In September 1995 AFP photographer Mushtaq Ali was killed in a parcel-bomb explosion in the BBC office in Srinagar. Two other journalists were injured.

-- Sam Asharaf - South Asia Correspondent in Trivandrum, India
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